South Putnam Junior-Senior High School

South Putnam High School
Location
Map
1780 East US Highway 40

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46135

United States
Coordinates39°34′58″N 86°48′57″W / 39.582829°N 86.815828°W / 39.582829; -86.815828
Information
TypePublic high school
Motto"Successful Tradition, Innovative Future"
School districtSouth Putnam Community Schools
PrincipalTona Gardner
Staff19.04 (FTE)[1]
Faculty34[2]
Grades9-12
Enrollment370 (2018-19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio19.43[1]
Campus size2A (IHSAA)
Color(s)   
Athletics conferenceWestern Indiana Conference
Team nameEagles
RivalsNorth Putnam Cougars, Greencastle Tiger Cubs, Cloverdale Clovers, Cascade Cadets
YearbookAquila
WebsiteOfficial website

South Putnam High School is a public high school located on the southern edge of Greencastle, Indiana in the heart of Putnam County. South Putnam High School serves students in the south central Putnam County area. There is also one middle school, South Putnam Middle School and two elementary schools, Fillmore and Central, that feed into South Putnam High School. South Putnam High School was ranked, in 2018, as the #18 high school in Indiana by U.S. News & World Report, the highest ranking of any Indiana public high school with less than 400 students.[3] South Putnam High School is a school in South Putnam Community Schools, which is crossed by Interstate 70, U.S. Route 40, and U.S. Route 231. With the relative access to many highways, South Putnam is located in the crossroads between the cities of Terre Haute, Bloomington, Lafayette/West Lafayette, and Indianapolis, four university cities that have many prominent programs in various fields of study, which makes South Putnam a center of activity located between these four cities. Additionally, DePauw University is located four miles north in nearby Greencastle, IN.

  1. ^ a b c "South Putnam High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  2. ^ "School Personnel". Indiana Department of Education, DOE Compass. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  3. ^ "US News Ranking". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved April 6, 2019.